From the course: React: Cloud-Powered Apps with Firebase

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Cloud Firestore intro

Cloud Firestore intro

From the course: React: Cloud-Powered Apps with Firebase

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Cloud Firestore intro

- [Narrator] I sure hope you have already been impressed with the powerful features that Firebase provides. We have easily added authentication to our app that otherwise would have taken a really long time to implement ourselves. But now it's time to start working with data. Cloud Firestore is a flexible, scalable NoSQL cloud database to store and sync data for client and server-side development. This data can be accessed directly via native SDKs that shifts with a comprehensive set of security rules so you can access your database without needing to set up your own server. And also, it will allow us to sync across devices. The Cloud Firestore model is document oriented so there aren't any tables or rows like in a SQL database. We instead store data in documents which are then organized into collections. Let's start with the document, it will be the unit of storage when working with Cloud Firestore. It is identified by…

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